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Preparations

Last weekend we went out of town for a wedding. (Great weekend. Totally worth the 13 hour drive. Rev had much cooler college buddies – and a much cooler college – than me.) I spent hours beforehand getting ready. I had a list of everything I wanted to pack, in little categories – my gear, Rev’s gear, Nomster’s gear, electronics, car amusements, trip snacks. Lists of tasks to do – clean out car, park the dogs, pay all the bills so the lights would be on when we got home. That’s the kind of person I am, the kind who makes lists, obsesses beforehand – and then once we’re on the way, sits back and enjoys and goes with the flow.

I had to make plans for our raid too. With the main tank and one healer out, and a mage off doing something or another, I had to line up replacements. A couple were easy: Bocat always loves to help out, we have some other friends who are sort of regulars. Notify Ado that he’s in charge, notify everyone else that he’s in charge (so there, or else) and then don’t worry about it. I thought about logging into remote chat Friday night and seeing how things were going but I figured they’d be well in hand. And they were. One sub couldn’t make it so they scrounged up another, went 6/7. They ended up with Grom filling in as tank (I hear you did great, Grom!) which I had thought possible and was why we’d looked at Grom’s tank set the other week and got it up to snuff.

Anyhow. Got preparations this week too. Blizzcon this weekend – our Virtual Ticket is bought, Log’s plane tickets are bought, other friends have their time scheduled off work. We’re going to have six people watching panels at our house, and four of us raiding at the same time. I’ve got to get the place clean, buy food and beer (read: margaritas) and probably read up on at least Heroic Shannox. But I’m starting to try to face up to patch 4.3 too. I’m not…. really… ready right now. The nerfs kind of took the wind out of my sails. I’m looking forward to the new raids, yeah, but not excited. Hopefully Blizzcon fixes that.

I’d been doing my JC dailies, then stopped because the information I was reading made me think they wouldn’t use tokens. Now they ARE using tokens, so I’ve got to get that in every day. I’m trying to get my auctioneering back on track so I can afford to upgrade gear and stuff. And I’m twiddling my thumbs thinking of a non-raid goal for WoW right now. There’s my shaman, at level 78…. there’s my horde druid at 68… there’s pets to collect. All things I find fun. None quite enough to keep me amused. I’m a little bored. To be perfectly honest, I’m more excited right now about November arriving so I can start my NaNoWriMo novel writing then I am about most of my WoW goals.

I’m not burned out. Just burned down a little. It’s more like the quiet lull of a winter snow on a fallow field. The field isn’t dead, it’s preparing for spring when there will be new growth and life and little green things. But right now is a good time to sit back and take things easy.

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Yes. Take things easy. Like I am doing. Owait … Hallow’s End starts today! I have 9 toons to take through that boss per day, plus my priest is 79 and is sooo close to being able to do it too. Then there’s the paladin I’ve been working on, and … oh hell. I guess my idea of taking it easy is having plenty of things to do. :)

I finally figured out that I don’t have to do *everything* with my alts – I’m perfectly happy keeping Bo as my “main” and doing whatever extra I need to do to keep her “up to speed” and ready for 4.3.

But the rest as just for fun right now, or to try something new or just for a “break.” Even though I have a lot of extra time to do it (and more with winter coming up) maintaining several 85s sounds more like work to me than fun ;)

The game is going to be around for a while, so there’s no rush – and the holiday events will be there next year as well. I like to do the events with Bo, but I only do the rest if I feel like it.

The Resto Druid nerfs have me down a little too. On the one hand I know we’ll deal with it, but on the other hand… It makes me angry at Blizz. Like, we TOLD Blizz that buffing our throughput would make everyone cry about the meters, but they refused to give us any actual TOOLS to do our job. So now when people are QQing about our throughput, which is the only thing that makes us viable, they nerf us. And then, the thing that makes me most angry, is that they tell us they are changing the Wild Growth glyph to give us more “choice”. Like, the choice to have an empty glyph slot? Or to use a totally pointless glyph? Arrrrgh! :(